Bill Text: HI SB853 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Elections Commission; Evaluation of Chief Election Officer
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-25 - The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes of the Senate Conference Managers were as follows: 2 Aye(s): Senator(s) Hee, Slom; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Shimabukuro. [SB853 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB853-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1234
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: S.B. No. 853
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 853, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ELECTIONS COMMISSION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The League of Women Voters of Hawaii and Common Cause Hawaii provided comments on this measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Specifying that the Elections Commission conduct a performance evaluation of the Chief Election Officer every six months rather than after each election; and
(2) Removing the requirement that the Elections Commission submit a written report to the Legislature within 90 days of the certification of election results.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 853, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 853, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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